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Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler

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Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler [née Cotton] (d. 1797) was a religious writer.^[1]^[2]

Family

Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler was the second daughter of Sir John Cotton, 6th Baronet (d. 1752). She married Thomas Bowdler (bap. 1719, d. 1785) in 1742 and among the couple's five children were four who also became religious writers: Jane Bowdler, John Bowdler, Henrietta Maria Bowdler, and Thomas Bowdler. It is after her Thomas, the editor of The Family Shakspeare, that the term "bowdlerize" is named.

Writing

She was the author of Practical Observations on the Revelation of St John, which was published anonymously in 1787. It was re-issued after her death, in 1800, as 'Practical Observations on the Revelation of St John, by the Late Mrs Bowdler'. In a new preface written to accompany the text, the editor wrote that Bowdler's book had appeared to prophesy the French Revolution.^[3]

Bibliography

Practical Observations on the Revelation of St John (published anonymously, 1787; re-published with a new preface, Bath: Crutwell, 1800).

References

1. ^J. Todd, ed., A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660–1800 (Rowman & Allanheld, 1984)
2. ^Emma Major, ‘Bowdler , Elizabeth Stuart (d. 1797)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 21 Aug 2017
3. ^'Preface', in Practical Observations on the Revelation of St John, by the Late Mrs Bowdler (Bath: Crutwell, 1800), pp. v–xii.

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